Schwarz Gallery - Catalog 75 - New Jersery Remembered: Seventy-fifth Anniversary Exhibition



Catalogue Cover Title page Copyright/Colophon Preface & Acknowledgements Introduction (1 2 3 4 ) Thumbnail Images Plates [ sort by Artist ] Birch, Thomas Constable, William Gullager, Christian Lawrence, Unknown after Charles Bird Lawrence, Attributed to Charles Bird Eddy, Oliver Tarbell Winner, William E. Bonnell, William C. Bonfield, George Robert Carmiencke Johann Hermann Humphreys, Charles Spencer Toronto Jersey Blue Trotter, Newbold Hough Hamilton, James Beach at Atlantic City In the Inlet, Atlantic City Richards, Frederick de Bourg Beach Scene Atlantic City Beach Scene with Sailboats Herzog, Hermann Richards, William Trost New Jersey Shore Waves Crashing Against the Shore Bonfield, William van de Velde Lewis, Edmund Darch Cape May, New Jersey Looking up the Beach, Cape May Jersey Coast Beach Scene Essig, George Emerick Harbor View w/Sailboats & Steamers Jersey Shore Dunes Barnegat Lighthouse Atlantic City Windmill and Sailboat Willcox, William H. Smith, Xanthus Cape May Beach Atlantic City, New Jersey Three Figures w/Rowboat, A.C., N.J. Waller, Frank Church, Morristown Red Foliage with Cows Grazing The Beach Afternoon, Morristown House and Garden, Morristown Beale, Joseph Boggs Judson, William Lees Weber, Carl Clark, Frederick H. Holloway, Edward Stratton Freedley, George Harrison Atlantic City from the Bay Beach Scene, Atlantic City Morris, George Spencer King, Paul Bernard Patterson, Amelia Rumsey D’Ascenzo, Nicola Koehler, Paul R. Cameron, Peter Caledon Absecon Island, New Jersey Sandhills @ Ventnor: Atlantic City Island Sunset over the Salt Meadows Gloaming on Tuckerton Salt Marshes Creek and Marsh, Absecon Island Farley, Richard Blossom At the Seashore Ocean City, New Jersey People on the Beach Cain, Cecilia A. Sorver, J. D. Griffith, Ella N. Krick, David M. Schoonover, Frank E. Howard, Edith Lucile Sunset on the Jersey Marshes Beach Scene Gechtoff, Leonid Licini, Frank Lie, Jonas Kelly, Leon Sailboat Race, Harvey Cedars, NJ Barnegat Bay, Fishery Blackburn, Morris Atkinson Campbell, Hugh H. Chard, Daniel	Oliver Tarbell Eddy (1799–1868) Portrait of a Young Girl (possibly Julia Andruss) Oil on panel, 40 1/2 × 30 inches Label (handwritten in ink) on edge of original frame: “Julia Andruss/Mary Dodd’s/Mother’s Sister” Provenance: Descended in the family of the sitter, New Jersey Oliver Tarbell Eddy was born in Greenbush, Vermont, the oldest son of inventor, printer, and engraver Isaac Eddy, who traced his ancestry back to the Mayflower. Although his father instructed him how to engrave on copper, Eddy evidently taught himself how to paint. He married Jane Maria Burger, daughter of the silversmith Thomas Burger, in Newburgh, New York in 1822. Eddy was active as a portrait and miniature painter in New York City by 1826, and exhibited a portrait at the National Academy of Design the following year. He moved to Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1831 and then to Newark in 1835. William H. Gerdts has suggested that he relocated to Newark because a distant relative, the Reverend Ansel Doane Eddy, was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church.¹ The artist was extremely successful in Newark and painted at least thirteen portraits of members of the family of a hat manufacturer named William Rankin. Eddy lived in Baltimore from 1842 to 1850, painting portraits and inventing a precursor to the typewriter. He lived in Philadelphia from 1850 until his death and was buried in Woodlands Cemetery.² Gerdts characterizes Eddy as “something of a Newark equivalent of [Henry] Inman in New York City”³ because he followed the period’s compositional conventions of portraiture. Nevertheless, the artist worked in a highly distinctive style characterized by a pronounced degree of naiveté. His ill-proportioned figures are generally stiff and wooden, set in self-conscious formal poses, and often possess an aura of haunting solemnity. Eddy consistently represented accessories such as floor coverings, furniture, windows draped with fringed curtains, and his sitters’ costumes in a meticulously detailed manner. He produced some remarkable large, complex multi-figure portraits such as the Children of William Rankin, Sr. (1838, The Newark Museum), and the Children of Mr. and Mrs. Israel Griffith (c. 1844, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore). The inscription on the edge of the original frame identifies the subject as Julia Andruss, a member of a prominent Newark family. Eddy must have painted this portrait sometime between 1835 and 1841, when he is known to have been active in Newark. The Newark directory for 1840–41 lists six members of the Andruss family, five of whom lived on Washington Street near George W. Andruss’s factory for making molding planes for carpenters and furniture makers. This information conforms to Eddy’s well-established pattern of finding patronage among upper-class families engaged in a manufacturing trade, such as the Rankins and the Griffiths. The specific identity of the young girl is uncertain. An obituary for Julia A. Jones in the New York Times (January 14, 1875) identified the deceased as the fifty-nine-year-old widow of the late George W. Andruss; having been born in 1816, she presumably would have been older than the girl who appears in this portrait. Notes 1. William H. Gerdts, Art Across America: Two Centuries of Regional Painting, 1710–1920 (New York: Abbeville Press, 1990), vol. 1, p. 230. 2. The standard study of Eddy is Edith Bishop, Oliver Tarbell Eddy, 1799–1868 [exh. cat.] (Newark, N.J.: The Newark Museum, 1950). 3. Gerdts, Art Across America, vol. 1, p. 231. Copyright ©2005 The Schwarz Gallery

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